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leadership really look like? If you're trying to get right, get that hook right, that hook right, because we don't play funk all that crooked ship in the d o j all. This ship seems word you nigga seems scared. I'm looking at that hashtag and peach Ford because the motherfucker's stealing it, and I think Trump's in the background just feeling and dealing. He'd be staying on that same team. I'm like jy'all Smith, I'll be high smoking dank green speaking to jy'all. I really need to stop it. I

messing that game is the Lakers versus the Rockets. Uh, Michael Sparko wildfire or maybe go put on some flager. A tiger like my name was ice Cube yelling at people and getting politicians to make we legal no fudget. I hope they have some firefighters in the California budgets because right now they fucking running because it's an exodus. No, it's not the best of this. It's the climate change disaster coming to the master bedroom of your house in

the middle of the valley. And I'm saying, the police kissing the white girl. Let a Trump rally, dope knife linger Franco waiting on reparations. You know who we are. You know what it is? Back again another week? How you doing? How how's the teaching? How's how the class is gone? Is it all online? It's been split in person online? So my the class, the main class that I teach, it's there's twenty students in it because of social distancing. However, only twelve of them can fit in

the classroom at any given time. So I have to teach one class to folks that want to come, and then a second version of the same lecture on zoom every Tuesday. So it's twice the work for the exact same amount of money. And I definitely love that a great deal. Um, But I've been drinking, so I started drinking like two gallons of water every day, any particular reason why, No, just because I'm depressed, and that's for solutions.

Be careful about that. I remember d legend back from when I was a little kid about some lady who kept drinking too much water and then like she perished. I don't know if that ship is true. It sounded true, it doesn't sound true right now because he used the verb perish and then she perished. It sounds like the scary story You're like, like, being great on water does? Like I started off saying that because I've been drinking two gallons of water every day and I've just had

limitless energy. Today I worked on grading for like four hours straight and recorded this bomb mass like video lecture and was just really on top of my ship and felt actually hopeful about teaching in this god forsaken pandemic

with this god forsaken school open. So would you say that other teachers like in Georgia have it worse, considering you know how they're kind of forcing everything to be open and should I mean, yeah, schools, there's a lot of school systems that school districts that are open for in person class and the public schools. Um I mean, I think among public higher education institutions, Georgia is just doing one of the worst jobs imaginable. Zero transparency with

regards to their COVID numbers. Story came out a couple of days ago saying they trained bunch of contract contact tracers over the summer and then didn't hire them to do contact tracing and sell straight upline about you. That is straight up just misleading everyone. Speaking of misleading, have you been hearing about the deep fake videos coming out?

I mean, you know, at this point, I kind of even feel that it would be irresponsible for me to even repeat the video that I'm talking about, because I wouldn't want to drive people to like go look for

it and ship. But I've started seeing um fake videos of Joe Biden and other Democratic political figures popping up in my feet and stuff like that, and people that like, you know, sharing it like like it's the gospel truth, and it's like you have to kind of pull them aside, like, hey man, uh, probably not wise to share the first thing you see when you log on. You know what I'm saying, you might want to that. It's just just one of those things in the background that I've been

noticing that's just kind of getting a little alarming. But this day would come. I knew this day would come. Oh yeah, yeah for so today, So we're gonna take a little break from our usual historic deep dives into the inter link juice between hip hop and public policy and kind of look at what's going on with real time with the singles and music videos that have dropped in the past week in their relationships to current events

and public policy. So I want to start out by wishing a happy birthday too Easy, who would have been fifty six years old on Monday. He was fondly remembered by fellow indow w a remember nice que on social media, and he died of AIDS induced pneumonia on March Goddamn n fucking crazy. You know, I remember when that ship happened.

I was a huge N Wave fan, and I was a fan of all that gangster rap shot when I was a little kid, ship that I probably shouldn't have been listening to, but Easy, he was definitely one of my favorites back in the day. Yo. Imagine going to the doctor for a cough and finding out you have

fucking AIDS. Wrap it up, Wrap that shut up. Be Yeah, and June of the year of his death, the fter day, I approved the first proteins inhibitor, beginning a new era of highly active anti retroviral treatments or HEART for AIDS. Treatment for AIDS um ones incorporated into clinical practice. Heart brought an immediate decline of between six and rates of AIDS related deaths and hospitalizations and countries that could afford it. Damn.

So if you lived just a few more months, he would have been alive to or able to get the treatment for the treatment. Yeah, you know, and I mean you never know what happens. You know very well could still be alive. Yeah, So what what do you think Easy would be like if he had lived to be in middle aged man like ice Cube is now? It's those are hard questions to answer because it's like it's like the last memory that you have of someone like Easy is when he was in his late twenties, you

know what I mean. So it's it's like that we will never know what he would have been like if he had grown older, you would have done like are we there yet experienced exactly? If you experienced the world as we all experienced, it been a point where he's like, man, I need to, I need to Where's where's the scripts? Where's are we there yet? Where's you know? Where's bad boys? I could totally imagine Easy is one of the cops

and bad boys. Like I mean, I'm not saying that he should replace Martin, but if it was Easy and Will Smith, wouldn't that have been Hi Easy ear and Will Smith in the Buddy Cop movie, that would be dope. Make a deep fake, make it happen. Yeah, I'll come, y'a.

Don't make deep fakes a positive ship like that. Um, it's always like Joe Biden's face and the WAT music video or something terrible, something to hout your your dreams and your nightmares and Ben Shapiro as Shakira or something to fucking hot my night marethew I thank you so speaking of Easy in this protege ice Cube, like you're saying.

Ice Cube sat out the primary in terms of supporting a candidate, but he recently took to Twitter to support the Black of Agenda, and he urged his followers to be skeptical of anyone telling you to vote but discouraging

you from asking anything. And so it's interesting to me because he's sort of like being like scoffed at by the left for like, where were you when we had the choice of multiple candidates who are like trying to offer us something or like inviting us to ask them for stuff as a part of gaining our support, whereas now the center left the liberals are like, shut up and vote because we have an existential threat of fascism in the White House right now. And so he's kind

of getting shipped on by everybody. I mean, he didn't he did he not have like a thing where somebody thought or did he posted something that was like anti semitic too or something like that. I remember his name being brought up around the time of the Nick Cannon thing too. I think it's weird that anyone that's like part of any sort of political establishment is um looking too ice Cube to like co sign what they're doing.

I mean, trust me, you listen to ice cubes music, and you know he definitely he has an understanding of the issues, but ice Cube doesn't funk with them. Like what in the world would make them think that ice Cube would just be on board because the team Democrat. I don't know, that's weird. Ship that must be like being on Twitter and having too much access to people and thinking it's like, oh, yes, let me tell ice Cube who to vote for, how to vote, or what

I think about his vote. Yeah. I mean it's also interesting to think along the same lines. You're just talking about what easy ease political development would have been had he lived to this day, Kevin that they you know, had a very critical stance of the police and you know, armed agents of the state in this current period, what side he would have fallen on. Because a lot of folks grow up and they and they mature and they grow more conservative, I personally don't understand mat I've gotten

more and more left wing. Is older I get, the more I learned about how funked up everything is, the more I'm like, yes, it might be clear all the major industries. Uh. I don't know if this affects any of that. But I think another ingredient of the whole growing older thing is having a kid. Yeah, I think that can be part of it too, So because I

feel the same way. It's like the older that I'm getting and this is like truth, the older that I've gotten, the more left I my, my, my, you know, the thought patterns have been but the friends of mine who I have noticed have become more conservatives older, they've gotten the one common ingredient to that is like a kid

or two. Interesting, I can't relate. I'm looking at my only child and he is uh, laying on my hoodie and orange and flapping his tail around because he is a cat, and he probably will be my only child ever, because I don't think I'll ever be able to afford to have children in this economy and in this climate literal, physical, geological, astronomical. Somebody asked me that question just a few days ago. Um, I had caught up with an old just through the

power of Facebook. I had caught up with a old friend from like fifth grade or some ship, and she was like, do you have any kids? I was like nah. Then she says, are you planning on having kids? If you would ask me this like eight months ago? I might have said, but asking me right now, asking me in August, I don't really know that. But let's get back to what we were talking about with the FDA.

So the groundbreaking AIDS treatment that came too late for easy was expedited for clinical use through the FDA's accelerated approve of regulation which allows drugs for serious conditions that fill an unmet medical to be approved based on a surrogate endpoint or sign used in place of another sign to tell if the treatment works and give health providers the wiggle room to use approaches during a public health

emergency that have a likely benefit. An FDA Commissioner, Stephen Hahn Hassett, he's open to pursue of this avenue with the coronavirus vaccine, Trump claimed on Monday that a vaccine could be available by October through with operational warp speed public private partner. That's a stupid name. I just I you know. I'm sorry, sorry to cut you off, but

that's a stupid fucking name. Sorry anyway. The New York Times obtained documents sent to the state and city officials in August to indicate the CDC is already instructing hospitals to begin preparing personnel, freezers and distribution sites to administer a vaccine as soon as late October. So we got all this rushing, we got Trump rushing. We've got the CDC sending the ship out to state and city officials,

trying to prep hospitals for distributing a vaccine. But on the flip side, nine companies leading the charge to develop a COVID nineteen vaccine released a pled on Tuesday, stick to the science and the development and licensing of the vaccine and not given to political pressures speed up the

process for convenience. So here we are the coronavirus cases in the United States topping six point three million and the confirmed death toll at over one eighty nine thousand, as well with the knowledge that expedited FDA propl for an eighth treatment came too late to save easy ease life. And I, you know, I'm wondering who the next e could be without fast action from the pharmaceutical companies. So how do we feel about a vaccine? I don't know. This is the sort of things that ship away of

people's trust in these bureaucracies and things like that. And if you have half of the country that doesn't trust the word that comes out of Donald Trump's mouth, and I don't want it. I don't want any rushed ship. I don't want any rush ship in my events dead. As a matter of fact, I'm not entirely sure how the science works, but I think that could potentially make the whole entire thing worse right, Like, so, I don't

see any reason to risk it. What I do know is that I've seen video of it raining and Donald Trump say that it's not raining. You feel me? Yeah, so funk that I'm not. I'm not taking it. I'm not. I'm sorry. Like, yeah, I never thought I would be pushed at this point where like, I'm so mistrustful of

a government that a life saving medical treatment. You have to like think twice about it from you now, if it's like something we're in, you know, who are the trusted sources and who aren't You know that at this point it's it sucks to fucking say. But at this point, every you know, everyone's got their bubble of who they trust. I'm more so looking for what most doctors and scientists

are saying, you know. So if they should co sign it and be like, hey, no, you know, this is what's up, then I guess that would kind of put my mind at ease. But does it make you feel any better that these companies have signed under this pledge saying They're not going to about a political pressure and I'm going to stick to the science and the development

of the vaccine. Yeah, it does. But then that makes because I never thought I would trust fucking pharmaceutical capitalists who make all this money off of like human pain and suffering. Do they have something to gain by like duping people in this in this sense with coronavirus, I guess, and not in this specific sense. I mean they do

profit off of people staying sick. If someone needs to buy more and more of their medicine every month, it's more profitable for them to make that medicine then to make pure I wonder what the numbers would be in terms of how many people are who don't have serious

cases of coronavirus are getting treatment. I mean, for real, like it would probably be this is totally just pulling out the ask, but I would imagine that most motherfucker's, especially in this economy, most people that end up feeling some symptoms that aren't serious that it's just like yeah, it's like, hey, I'm just gonna write it out. So, as one of the artists says in a song, We're gonna look at a little bit later. Uh, finding off a virus with hot water and lemon peel is what

a lot of people are resorting to. I'm pretty sure I can speak from Oria, and she says, we're not like condoning any anti vaxx ship. I want everyone to like use their best judgment to read, stay up on, you know, whether or not they're doing their due diligence with these clinical trials, you know, keep tabs on what's happening with the CDC, is happening with the FDA, and try to, like dicern you know, what what's best for you. I'm not at all endorsing everyone, uh but boycotting the

vaccine or anything like that. I'm just stating personally how I feel right now. But I mean, I just maybe it's probably because I have a news overload too, but again, it's just I'm looking at the people who are in charge. That's who I'm taking my cue from. And the people who are in charge have given me no reason to believe that like my safety or well being is a concern. That's the way that I look at it. You know

what I'm saying. Now, it's like a feeling that you you normally have no matter who the people in charge are, but now it's like really like, oh, Ship, these motherfucker's, these other bugs really were just cool and just like let a whole pandemic, like funk up the whole country, you know. So I I don't I can't be the only person that feels that way. That Like, let's say Trump wins and then they get the vaccine. He's like, here,

you go take it. Take I I just I think there's gonna be a lot of people that are gonna not want to. And that'sm not saying that's a good thing, you know, I'm just saying I think a lot of people are gonna feel that way. A lot of people don't trust him or his administration that they would feel comfortable with taking some rushed vaccine. And it's a moment of expanded empathy, you know, Like I've never really empathized

with the anti vax position in general. I haven't read what those folks have read, so I'm not really sure where they're coming from in terms of what perceived science is behind that position with regards to vaccine is causing office and things like that. But it's like, I get it now, it's mistrust of the government. Like, oh man, I think that's get it. I think that's what most of it is. It's just the mistrust of the government.

It just depends on which government, what part of the government or aspect of the government you don't trust, You know what I'm saying. All Right, I'm next. We're going to talk about the new single from my Gian Canadian rapper Toby featuring Jewels, entitled Dollars and Cents. Let's give it a spin. Making examp taking at the game the minute I was making a plan? Where did it gives

me a j I D vibe? I get a strong Anderson pack vibe and in the in the vocal style wars, it's got this like this that's almost whiny edge to it, but like it's kind of like allerting. You said, he's Nigerian Canadian. Yeah, so I really dig the video. That's a really original take on doing a video for the Corona virus era. So pretty much in the video he's having a FaceTime chat in different scenes with a significant other while she's like dancing around the apartment. She's over

in Lagos, Nigeria and he's in Toronto, Canada. Yeah. Toby told Okay Africa that he was supposed to go back to Nigerian in March, but the pandemic scuttled those plans, so he made a music video to capture connecting with its homeland from a distance via FaceTime call. I thought the music video was tight, very stylish. I mean, you know, I love lady with the big dancing around and this like modernast lead home cooking up something I don't know, chopping up garlic and ship like it was. Yeah, I mean,

the simplicity of it is what's out to me. And I guess the thing about it that I like is like, Okay, my mom watches a lot of Nigerian movies, right, Like that's her that's like her ship, that's her hobbies. Like she just has a whole fucking collection of like vhs is at that too, you know what I mean, Like Nigerian films, Nigerian sinema, and it's like watching it, I just dig how it's like it doesn't matter what setting it is. You can tell that it's a Nigeria, you

can tell it's African, you know what I mean. It has like it just it can be like a completely uh standard stereotypical like I mean, but just the people interacting in the scene, it's like, oh yeah, this is African, you know, Like specifically, I love that. I love that vibe from the video, like from the minute it starts,

I could pick that up now. The outbreak of the coronavirus has reached every nation in Africa, and Nigeria is one of the worst effect to come trees on the continent, with thousand cases and a little more than a thousand deaths at the time of this recording. Nigeria in fact, just ended its second lockdown for the coronavirus last week. Nigeria had three hundred and fifty ventilators and three hundred and fifty ICU beds for its entire population before the outbreak,

and many officials feared its healthcare capacity would quickly become overwhelmed. Surprisingly, however, infection and death rates in many African countries have turned out to be much lower than initially feared. It seems that our struggles are pre conditions might be working in favor of African countries in our population, said said Professor shaub A Mahdi, South Africa's top virologists and an important figure in the hunt for a vaccine for COVID nineteen.

This is what he told the PC For while now, experts have cited a youthful population is the best explanation for Africa's relatively low infection rates. After all, the average age and the continent is roughly half that in Europe. The scientists continue to look for a reason as to why the cases and death counts have remained relatively low

to that of Europe and the America's. So the CNN article about the scientists trying to figure out why African nations haven't been as impacted by the coronavirus has initially expected was harshly received by the Internet. A lot of folks landbassing at first Team in that Africa Africans can't handle their ship, which like I get, but it's not like these are just random white people that are like

why is wired Africans dying? These a literal virologists who understand the way virus is spread, the conditions that foster their transmission, because like for real, like you you obviously know, I hate saying ship like this, but as an African dude, you know, like when when the ships was popping off in March and I was talking to like family members and people who were in Africa, it was like, yo, if the ship is that bad over there like in the US, Like funk, what's it gonna be like over here,

you know what I'm saying. After about a month it was like yore, y'all, okay, do you need you need me to send you something Naculi up? So it completely switched, and I mean I still don't know why, but a lot of people had that concern, you know what I'm saying, that this was gonna hit Africa and particularly hard. I mean especially considering that you could look over at Indians he was going on in India. Some man, people need to calm the funk down for real. It's unexplained. Top

scientists can't figure it out. Some fucking nimrods on Twitter aren't gonna fucking figure it out. Like you know what this made me think of when I saw that in the nose because I I hadn't heard of that about the whole like reaction to that, but um, you know I watched basketball and ship this similar thing happened in basketball, or just a similar reaction to something where a guy just got a job to coach the Brooklyn Nets. His

name Steve Nash. He used to be really good for There's some people who are listening to those who are like, why are you explaining it? This way, it's because Mariah doesn't watch basketball, doesn't know what. So Steve Nash is a really good basketball player and he retired, and it's

like a common thing. It's not an unusual thing that he's like super super good basketball players, point guards and stuff like that, especially end up getting coaching positions after they retire, right without any experience or anything like that. So Steve Nash got the job, and there were takes of it being white privilege and how did you guys give him this job? And it should have been a

black guy. But in this particular case, it's like, Yo, this ship happened for like five black coaches in a row, like yesterday. Maybe not, maybe not, maybe not this time. It's true, maybe not this time. I knew this week as well as East Coast rapper Graphs new single Killing Kings featuring my son ray Manuel and Sly Piper, dropped

on September three. It calls out inter racial and police violence equally, as well as the stress of this trying to stay alive under the inter twinding pandemics of the coronavirus, and systemic racism over a twining guitar, simple reminiscence of me of the fujis. Let's take a listen at the Homma Nica last week. I'll be back in the street, active and rather believe we could have peace of everyan

poe you'd rather believe. Now, I've said before the iced Tea is my goat and my favorite hip hop artist. But you know, Graph is probably my favorite rapper. He definitely was my favorite rapper when I was first starting out back in the day. This is like, this type of song is more indicative of my son's catalog, Like he usually raps about ship like this, so so for Graph, this is kind of not his usual ship. So he

calls out those who criticize. On the first verse, uh, Graph calls out those who criticized Kaepernick for kneeling, and later way a manual times in the line, I've got a target on evact, I don't care if they put it on the target where you at. And then on the third verse, my zone name drops Brianna Taylor and Elijah McClain saying they did little Elijah, I don't care

if your precincts on fire. Nika's getting tired of marching, you know, kind of like talking about the different forms of protests how the former peaceful ones often get overlooked, they get criticized as much as the not so peaceful versions. So I mean, it's it's it's I think it's touching upon this national conversation right now about like what is the proper way to express our grief and the aftermath

of tragedies like these. In my personal favorite part that I uh duh, it's a part where Graff says how I'm fighting police when I'm busy fighting depression. That ship that captures this whole last fucking three months for real, Like I mean, but I mean, you've been dealing with it better than most motherfucker's because you've actually still been

You've actually been getting up and doing it. But I mean, god, damn, when I heard that line, I felt that ship, because it's like a lot of the last six seven months has felt like a punch in the gut a lot of stuff, you know, and and it's sometimes it gets hard to kind of look at you know, the world is like a whole picture and not like just be

concerned with what's going on internally. So I feel that I feel that, oh, yeah, you know, you you especially for someone like me who like I mean, I watched the news all the time for this podcast, so it's like, you know, I see I see the protest, my roommates going to protests and ship and I'm like, I'm sad. I don't want to do anything, you know what I mean, It's it makes you feel guilty in a way. No,

I feel that. I mean, in the aftermath of the budget vote back in June and our failure to defund the police here in Athens, I spent like a solid month just in bed. In bed, I like fled. I went to California. I fucking back from California and fucking just fled to my mom's house. I was just in a feuge state. I was in a FuG state because it's too much to handle. It's a lot. I mean, no one should, no one out there should feel like like it's not a lot, Like this is fucked up.

If if you, if you, if you're wondering, you're not alone, like this whole entire situation. And I'm talking I'm not just talking about the George Floyd stuff. I'm talking onto now, Like there's nobody who's alive who's experienced anything like this, and it's relentless you know, and they call it out here in the hook when they sing, they say they shot him because they fled. And it's unfortunately a timely refrain given the killing of eighteen year old Dean k

by DC police the day before. The single dropped so body Warren camera released in the aftermath of the shooting shows the officer running out of his car and in a matter of seconds, firing his gun at a teenager as he was running away from police. The officer made no attempt to de escalate. There was no warning or directive given to Kay to drop the weapon, a weapon that K appears to have thrown in the air, in

which was recovered almost a hundred feet from his body. Now, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, I stood firm against call, said a fund to the police from the get go. Has been lambastad by Black Lives Matter DC for painting the words on the streets she were named for the rallying cry BLMDC is now calling from Mayor Bowser to fire

the officer that killed Dion. I think you know the fact of the facts that are revealed by this body camp footage, and you know, calls from reformers to oh well, we need to increase body cameras and mandate body cameras and increase police budgets for body camera usage. Um, I think still fall short of what a lot of the activists in the streets, the you know, the revolutionaries out here putting their lives on the line for this movement

I want to see. Because in the case of Daniel Prude in Rochester, who you know, a black man that was experienced a mental health crisis. His family member called the police, who you know, put a spithood on him and pressed him face down on the freezing cold street until he had, you know, problems breathing. He ended up going to the hospital and dying seven days later. Um, that body camp footage didn't come out. He died in March,

and that body camp footage came out last week. And so the transparency and the ease of access to this footage is unequal. Sometimes it stays locked up for months, sometimes it never gets released. And so sure, you can say it gives us greater accountability with the police, but we got but it's not. But there we run into issues with how the police misused this footage sometimes for their own game and to protect those that make up

their force. Well, I mean, I mean, especially if we don't have any control as to when the body cam footage get out and when it doesn't. Because I mean, right now, what when when did uh proud happen? March? She died in March. That happened in March. So that happened around the time of a mat Abrey, right or a little bit after, Yeah, right around right after Brown

Taylor's killing, right after a mod Arebrey. The public being aware of the situation, and possibly the protests lasted a little bit longer with I mean more like as intensely as they were in like July and June, they last a bit longer than that. Maybe something extra gets done, like this is important in the entire the um chief

of Police, entire command staff of the Rochester Police Department resigned. Yeah, I heard about that, you like, and they've been they've been in the streets for like what five days, because I've noticed that the k case hasn't gotten as much because you don't. Yeah, I was gonna if that's what you thought it was. It sucks that a gun being

involved makes people be dismissive of it. But yeah, because this is double edged sort of also expanding the surveillance state so that every interaction that you have with the police officer is filmed and they can do what they want and what they will with that footage. Whereas, on the other hand, UH footage of these police killings has helped draw public awareness to the issue of police brutality and of UH police impunity. So it's like, what, I

just don't know how to feel. I mean, I'm not really in favor of giving any more funds to the police for anything, to expand their budgets in any way. UM, And yet documentation of this you know, systemic issue is the only way that we have been able to cultivating national conversation about how to fix it. So lastly, let's turn to the controversy swirling Tianna Taylor's new video or self directed video for her song Still. Let's check it

out a little bit of that makes movie. It opens with her parent out the window with a gun like Malcolm x Um and smattered with historical footage from black liberation movements and police impunity throughout the decades. Later, Taylor is dressed up like Brianna Taylor and her E M T uniform and later Still as Emmett Till's mother grieving at this casket side and then he took to Twitter

to cry the videos profiting off of black death. I actually thought the video was kind of if you just played that song for somebody, they wouldn't think that song is about what's going on right now with the And that's why the video is powerful because it recontextualizes the lyrics in the on a way that makes the lyrics

even more profound. If you read them as like a simp will love song and she's crying out for this guy she thinks about still, like I would probably hear that on the radio and then like switch stations because who then cares We heard that song up any of times, but re contextualized as as a statement of the grieving that we're dealing with this still, that we're thinking of these people who were slain. Still. By adding the visual

element to it, it really like change. It really changes what the song means and kind of like again, I got goose bumps, like people's issue exactly with the The issue is that the lyrics have nothing to do. There's no call to action, there's no direct people to resources to get involved in the movement. It's not activism. It's not activism. That's bullshit. I think that's bullshit, that criticism of it. I don't know why this doesn't make me not like it because, like I feel how you feel.

I thought it was dope personally, but I feel that, Um, I gott admit the part where she was singing and she was dressed as Brianna Taylor. I don't know why I couldn't articulate to you. I've been smoking, but it kind of made me cringe. I don't know, maybe if it was an actress or there was like an actress that was like you know, or you know, one of those camera tracks we don't really see the person's face, but it's like eluding that it's Brianna Taylor. I don't

know why. This is just a complete personal thing, but something about it. When I saw that part, I was kind of like, you know, kind of actually had a more vistle reaction to the footage of the actual like the audio of like Eric Garner, the audio of like George Floyd. That stuff bothered me more because it's so retraumatizing to experience that again. Is that I wonder if that's in the audio version. I wonder it's just in

the video. I'm well, I mean, it definitely feels like it has more thought behind it than a lot of statements that have been made musically recently. We're allowed to grieve, We're allowed to make art that grieves. Yeah, it's like I guess, yeah, she's making money off of it, but it's also her authentic expression of how she's feeling about what's going on, or is it capitalization on what's going on? Or is it both? How much the artist's intentions, you know,

feed into our interpretation of it. Realistically, there's no way that anyone can know how authentic it is, but it feels authentic to me personally. It made me feel something, and I was supposed to do that. Like for me, knowing that you know, it's her song and knowing that she directed the video to me made it feel personal. Watching it and listening to it, the whole experience was like, oh this is It wasn't like a director came to her like, hey, I gotta you know, groundbreaking idea that's

going to make us lots of money. It was like she wrote the song, she made this music video to capture what her words really meant. And yeah, I think it adds a layer of like of of of sensitivity and like authenticity to it. For me. Yeah, I I've I'm not really that big on R and B. So it's hard for me to hear one R and B singer from the next and be like, Oh, this is why this person is better than this person, you know what I'm saying. But I know that projects like this

are things that make me become fans of people. You know, It's like, oh, man, this is like a whole multimedia thing that is primarily one person's idea. Like funk with that, you know, like I really do. I really do. So I'll probably be listening some more Tiana Taylor after this a good ship. Well we're gonna end this by me taking my index finger pressing that space bar DJ space bar in the house. Let's get one of those beats to wrap overation Wait, no reparations. Happy birthday to my

nigga easy. If he was allowed today, he probably put out three CDs, but he died like back before. I wasn't high school. Only when we got left is my nigga cu I'm like, oh we there yet, let me play need a vaccine? Get her from the f d A. But it's almost too much histeria. I need to leave this country and go to Nigeria. To Nigeria, because they

are nothing like us. You're very much unlikely to catch the VIP risk if you go over there, because they ain't shouting louder trying to get some power from Burial Bowser, Mario Bowser. She take it in the streets, the hometown mayor saying black lives matter to police, and you know that's why we call it the mayor. And then I

go and sing sweeter than Tianna Taylor. Tianna Taylor with that video for still depicting a deceased Emmett Till with his mama's crying and the tears so they fill all over her face, all over her grill, all over her grill. I keep them fresh. I'm sitting at the window like Malcolm X and just looking at these cops like Coopy next every time I'm on the ship. Yeah, I'll beat That's what it's. My name is, Dope, KNIGHTE. We are waiting on reparations. Hurry up, see you next week. You

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